Dress: multiple gender version one the same id/slot

[Richter Belmont]

Let say you have an add-on dress made of multiple mesh and want to hide/show tem bae on the actor gender.
For exemple, you made a T-Shirt that fit all 3 gender: one male and one female/shemale mesh version.
How do we do?

As many people already did, you may place the two version on two different ID (add-on slot)...
but this is a totally WRONG thing to do. (you're using two slot for a single dress)

Using the .show() parameter of the DressCmd object to hide/show to mesh version base on the actor gender?
Nice try...
but it won't work: Hided mesh will show up when undressing te dress.

So what is the good way?
First, you need multiple scenes/*.bs and Ac*.bs files.
Note that in one of my previous post, I said that multiple scene file can be include in the same Ac file.
So you may ask: Why not simply inlcude all our scenes file in the same Ac file?
Well, when the dress ask for the Ac file, it will somewhat join all the scenes file it contain (like if all linked scenes file was a single and unique file)
This "joining" have to be avoided and this is why we also need multiple Ac*.bs files.

To keep my file naming simple, I just add a _F(female only, also possibly shemale), _M(male only, also possibly shemale) and/or _S(shemale only) at the end of my scenes and Ac files.
Exemple:
\Scripts\Luder\Hair\AcR9Top007.bs \Scripts\Luder\Hair\AcR9Top007_F.bs \Scripts\Luder\Hair\AcR9Top007_M.bs

So what parameter have to be use in the DcDress*.bs file?
.SceneScriptFile
It's a array and that mean it isn't limited to only one Ac.
Element on this array are grouped by two.
The first element is the Ac*.bs file path/name that you want to call.
The second element is word ID that will relate to the Ac file.
Then add some if gender condition...

Code:

DressDescription :Dress32607_Description . {[/color]
[color=#000000].DressID I32(32607);[/color]
[color=#000000].DressName "R9Blouse007";[/color]
[color=#000000].PrimaryZone :DZ_Blouse;[/color]
[color=#000000].DressIconID I32(32607);[/color]
[color=#000000]};[/color]
[color=#000000]if ( :EnableFemale || :EnableShemale ) {[/color]
[color=#000000]DressDescription :Dress32607_Description . {[/color]
[color=#000000].SceneScriptFile [ :DressBaseDir + "AcR9Blouse007_F" , :P + "R9Blouse007_F" ];[/color]
[color=#000000].PickNodeNameArray [ :P + "R9Blouse007_F:R9Blouse007-mesh" ];[/color]
[color=#000000].CmdArray [ DressCmd . {
.Show I32(1);
.Target :P + "R9Blouse007_F:R9Blouse007-mesh";
};
];[/color]
[color=#000000]};[/color]
[color=#000000]} else {[/color]
[color=#000000]DressDescription :Dress32607_Description . {[/color]
[color=#000000].SceneScriptFile [ :DressBaseDir + "AcR9Blouse007_M" , :P + "R9Blouse007_M" ];[/color]
[color=#000000].PickNodeNameArray [ :P + "R9Blouse007_M:R9Blouse007-mesh" ];[/color]
[color=#000000].CmdArray [ DressCmd . {
.Show I32(1);
.Target :P + "R9Blouse007_M:R9Blouse007-mesh";
};
];[/color]
[color=#000000]};[/color]
[color=#000000]};

Of course, there is a "trap" related to the use of array that you may accounter.
Let say your dress have some mesh usable by all actor and some other being gender specific.(taking my centaur add-on pant for exemple: tail and body is usable by all gender, but cock and vagina is gender specific )
The .SceneScriptFile will must likely be used twice by the same gender. (one time in the "all gender" bloc and one time in the gender specific bloc)
You need to take note of these three array operation:
1.

Code:

.Array [ "Banana" , "Potato" , "Fruit" ];[/color]
[color=#000000]...[/color]
[color=#000000].Array [ "Loom" , "Ninja" ];

In this situation, each call of the array overwrite/replace all its content.
So the value of our exemple array will be...

Code:

.Array [ "Loom" , "Ninja" ];

2.

Code:

.Array [ "Banana" , "Potato" , "Fruit" ];[/color]
[color=#000000]...[/color]
[color=#000000].Array << "Wiki";[/color]
[color=#000000].Array << "Bottle";

The << allow to add a single element at the end of the array.
So the value of our example array will be...

Code:

.Array [ "Banana" , "Potato" , "Fruit" , "Wiki" , "Bottle" ];

3.

Code:

.Array [ "Banana" , "Potato" , "Fruit" ];[/color]
[color=#000000]...[/color]
[color=#000000].Array = [ "Tomato" , "Yup" , "Loop" ];

The = [  ] allow to add multiple element (so an array) at the end of your array.
So the value of our exemple array will be...

Code:

.Array [ "Banana" , "Potato" , "Fruit" , "Tomato" , "Yup" , "Loop" ];

I will let you with this dcdress*.bs code example that you should understand now.

Code:

DressDescription :Dress32607_Description . {[/color]
[color=#000000].DressID I32(32607);[/color]
[color=#000000].DressName "R9Blouse007";[/color]
[color=#000000].SceneScriptFile [ :DressBaseDir + "AcR9Blouse007" , :P + "R9Blouse007" ];[/color]
[color=#000000].PickNodeNameArray [ :P + "R9Blouse007:R9Blouse007-mesh" ];[/color]
[color=#000000].CmdArray [ DressCmd . {[/color]
[color=#000000].Show I32(1);[/color]
[color=#000000].Target :P + "R9Blouse007:R9Blouse007-mesh";[/color]
[color=#000000]};[/color]
[color=#000000].PrimaryZone :DZ_Blouse;[/color]
[color=#000000].DressIconID I32(32607);[/color]
[color=#000000]};[/color]
[color=#000000]if ( :EnableFemale || :EnableShemale ) {[/color]
[color=#000000]DressDescription :Dress32607_Description . {[/color]
[color=#000000].SceneScriptFile = [ :DressBaseDir + "AcR9Blouse007_F" , :P + "R9Blouse007_F" ];[/color]
[color=#000000].PickNodeNameArray = [ :P + "R9Blouse007_F:R9Blouse007-mesh" ];[/color]
[color=#000000].CmdArray << DressCmd . {[/color]
[color=#000000].Show I32(1);[/color]
[color=#000000].Target :P + "R9Blouse007_F:R9Blouse007-mesh";[/color]
[color=#000000]};[/color]
[color=#000000]};[/color]
[color=#000000]} else {[/color]
[color=#000000]DressDescription :Dress32607_Description . {[/color]
[color=#000000].SceneScriptFile = [ :DressBaseDir + "AcR9Blouse007_M" , :P + "R9Blouse007_M" ];[/color]
[color=#000000].PickNodeNameArray = [ :P + "R9Blouse007_M:R9Blouse007-mesh" ];[/color]
[color=#000000].CmdArray << DressCmd . {[/color]
[color=#000000].Show I32(1);[/color]
[color=#000000].Target :P + "R9Blouse007_M:R9Blouse007-mesh";[/color]
[color=#000000]};[/color]
[color=#000000]};[/color]
[color=#000000]};